Offshore staff

ABERDEEN, UK – Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd. has awarded BJ Process and Pipeline Services a contract for pipeline precommissioning on Kuwait Oil Co.'s Crude Export Facilities in Fahaheel-Ahmadi.

BJ PPS will work on three 56-in (142-cm) diameter subsea pipelines extending 25, 19.3, and 14.2 km (15.5, 12, and 8.7 mi) to the onshore terminal at the North Pier pumping station and a 24-in (61-cm) subsea pipeline which runs 23.5 km (14.6 mi) to the onshore South Pier station.

BJ PPS is to provide flooding, cleaning, gauging, leak testing, dewatering, hydrotesting, and nitrogen purging and packing. It also will de-oil existing pipelines for tie-ins and replacement.

Work is under way on the first two phases of the project and is scheduled to run through mid-2008.

10/30/2007